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La familia Benetón crece. © Beta Fiction

Ha comenzado el rodaje en diferentes localizaciones de Madrid y Canarias de La familia Benetón +2, la segunda entrega de la exitosa comedia familiar estrenada en 2024, que vuelve a estar dirigida por Joaquín Mazón y cuenta de nuevo con guion de Curro Velázquez y Benjamín Herranz.

En La familia Benetón +2, cuando Toni Benetón (Leo Harlem) cree que tiene todo bajo control en su entrañable y divertida familia multicultural, la llegada de dos nuevos bebés pondrá patas arriba la casa y a toda la familia. Los problemas crecen por partida doble pero las aventuras también.

El reparto principal repite con Leo Harlem y El Langui, acompañados por los jóvenes intérpretes Alí Dia, Diego Montejo, Gala Bichir, Meilin Chen y Kamsiyochi Ngene, quienes volverán a dar vida a los niños protagonistas.

En palabras de su director, Joaquín Mazón: «Hacer una segunda parte de una película que fue...

© Warner Bros, A24 & Universal Pictures Los pecadores © Warner Bros

Michael B. Jordan por duplicado, vampiros y terror con sello Ryan Coogler. En Los pecadores, Jordan interpreta a dos hermanos gemelos que regresan a su pueblo natal con la esperanza de dejar atrás sus problemáticas vidas y empezar de nuevo, solo para descubrir que un mal mayor les está esperando. Nuestro crítico Enrique Constans ha dicho sobre ella: «Un paso de gigante de Coogler como narrador de historias, siendo fácilmente su mejor película hasta la fecha».

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Michael Fassbender y Cate Blanchett se sumergen en un duelo de lealtades y engaños en este thriller de espionaje con dirección de Steven Soderbergh. La película, con buenas reacciones en Estados Unidos donde ya se ha estrenado, sigue a George Woodhouse, un legendario agente de inteligencia, y su esposa Kathryn, una espía igual de brillante que él. Pero cuando surgen...

The excitement and cosplay fun of San Diego Comic-Con is coming to Europe. Under an agreement managed by Img Licensing, “Sdcc is setting roots outside the United States for the first time in its history, making its European debut in Málaga,” the Andalucía region of Spain, this September, organizers said on Monday.

For four days from Sept. 25-28, 2025, the city will host the first official San Diego Comic Convention-licensed event outside the U.S. “This historic milestone would not have been possible without the institutional support of the Junta de Andalucía and the Málaga City Council, who have firmly committed to making Málaga the European capital of popular arts,” Sdcc said.

The international expansion was unveiled during an event at the Gran Hotel Miramar in Málaga, hosted by director, and screenwriter Santiago Segura, and including Junta de Andalucía president Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, Mayor of Málaga Francisco de la Torre Prados,...

La nueva comedia familiar española que busca arrasar en taquilla. © Buena Vista Internacional

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler y póster de El casoplón, la nueva comedia familiar del director Joaquín Mazón y el guionista Roberto Jiménez, que promete conquistar la taquilla primaveral (curiosamente no se estrena en verano).

En El casoplón, Toñi, Carlos y sus tres hijos afrontan el peor verano de sus vidas: sin vacaciones, encerrados en un piso de 50 metros cuadrados, ambos padres trabajando a tiempo completo y, para colmo, el aire acondicionado se estropea en plena ola de calor. Pero, Toñi y los niños convencen a Carlos para quedarse a dormir en el casoplón vacío en el que le ha tocado trabajar como jardinero durante un par de semanas. Lo que iba a ser una escapada temporal del bochorno veraniego se convierte en unas vacaciones inolvidables y llenas de aventuras, entre mansiones y vecinas famosas,...

‘Padre no hay más que uno 4: Campanas de boda’ a la cabeza.

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Casi 24 horas para despedir el año, pero en mundoCine no podemos decir adiós sin antes hacer un repaso del top películas españolas más taquilleras de 2024, con datos extraídos del Icaa (Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales) y, acompañado, como ya viene siendo habitual por nuestra parte, de información muy útil sobre dónde podéis verlas en estos momentos.

Y es que, si en el top de las películas que más han recaudado a nivel mundial predominaban las sagas –secuelas, secuelas y más secuelas, con Wicked como la única excepción–, el del cine español que más ha triunfado en la cartelera de este año nos ha ofrecido, en cambio, una diversidad de lo más refrescante.

Eso sí, no faltan los habituales. Santiago Segura, una vez más, se...

Esther Acebo, best known for playing Stockholm in Netflix’s global smash hit “Money Heist,” has signed on to star in Nestor Ruiz Medina’s upcoming feature “In the End, Everything Will Be Fine” (“Al Finald Toda va a Estar Bien”).

Described as a “critique on today’s society in the vein of Ruben Östlund,” the film will tell five interweaving stories that touch on the “essence of the stupidity of humanity.”

Acebo’s credits include “Money Heist,” Prime Video’s “Operación Marea Negra” and “Antes de Perder” on Playz. Her feature film resume includes roles in Ignacio Tatay’s “Jaula” and Joaquín Mazón’s “De Perdidos al Río.” She is currently filming “La Increíble Historia de Julia Pastrana” for Disney+ and the feature “Normas para una Página de Sucesos” by director José Ortuño.

Of her reaction to seeing the screenplay for “In the End, Everything Will Be Fine,” Acebo...

Protagonizada por Pablo Chiapella y Raquel Guerrero, y con la cantante Edurne. © Disney

Comienza en Madrid y Bilbao el rodaje de la película El Casoplón, del director Joaquín Mazón y el guionista Roberto Jiménez.

El Casoplón sigue a Toñi, Carlos y sus tres hijos, que están pasando el peor verano de sus vidas; sin vacaciones, encerrados en un piso de 50 metros cuadrados, los dos padres trabajando a tiempo completo… y para colmo, el aire acondicionado se estropea en plena ola de calor. Toñi y los niños convencen a Carlos para pasar la noche en la casa vacía en la que trabaja como jardinero durante un par de semanas. Lo que iba a ser una escapada puntual del bochorno veraniego se convierte en unas vacaciones inolvidables llenas de aventuras, entre mansiones y vecinos famosos, que transformarán para siempre a esta familia y les harán replantearse qué es lo realmente importante para cada uno de ellos.

Homegrown hits led by A Moroccan Affair and Championext, an explosion of comedies and the solid performance of several European indies have helped the Spanish box office to withstand the lack of US releases following the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year.

Local productions were the highest grossing independent films at the Spanish box office in the year ending February 2024, with Álvaro Fernández Armero’s A Moroccan Affair at the top of the list.

The 2023 Spanish box office total was €504 million, with 77.8 million tickets sold, representing a 26% increase on 2022.

The two biggest Spanish films are both part of existing franchises.

Featuring famed directors such as Argentina’s Ariel Rotter and Spain’s Benito Zambrano, who have not only played but won at Berlin and San Sebastian respectively, Malaga’s 19-pic out of competition strand is a testament to the buyer-driven pulling power of Malaga , thanks to its significant market.

Multiple other name auteurs pack out the selection, which also includes a far stronger line is broad audience comedies than most festivals would risk.

This is certainly territory for discoveries and breakouts – a healthy Málaga tradition.

A brief drill down on titles:

“La Bandera”

Director: Martín Cuervo

“La Bandera,” produced by Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales and Idesia Films, humorously unfolds a family’s inheritance dispute, in the sense that sons, Aitor Luna and Miquel Fernández, aren’t getting what they expected from their father played by Spanish veteran actor Imanol Arias.

“A Blue Bird”

Director: Ariel Rotter

Respected Argentine auteur Rotter returns...

The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival (Mff) opens today (March 1) with animated feature Dragonkeeper and a strong line-up of Spanish and Latin American world premieres. The festival is a popular annual meeting point for the Spanish film industry, attended by most buyers and sellers, and showcases the best in new Spanish-language filmmaking.

The world premiere of Salvador Simó and Jian-Ping Li’s Dragonkeeper opens the festival, marking the first time Malaga has raised its curtain with an animated movie. A Spain-China co-production, Dragonkeeper is based on books by Carol Wilkinson, with an English-language voice cast that includes Bill Nighy and Mayalinee Griffiths.

Descubre las películas que estarán en el 27 Festival de Málaga: una lista de las películas en competición y fuera de concurso.

Todos los años se celebra en Málaga, el Festival de Cine de Málaga. Un festival que se centra principalmente en producciones españolas y tiene como objetivo promover y celebrar la industria cinematográfica en España, así como proporcionar una plataforma para el reconocimiento y la difusión del cine español. Un festival en el que han tenido su estreno mundial muchas películas que después han sido nominadas a los premios Goya, como es el caso de “20.000 Especies de Abejas” en esta pasada edición de los premios más grandes del cine español.

Este año, el 27 Festival de Málaga se celebra del 1 al 10 de marzo y cuenta con un total de 19 películas (11 españolas y 8 latinoamericanas), que concursarán en la Sección Oficial y 18 películas (15 españolas y 3 latinas) en sección Oficial no competitiva. Una...

One of Spain’s biggest and oldest movie events, the Valladolid Intl. Film Festival, known as the Seminci in Spain, is broadening its range of Spanish films and aims to strengthen its position as an international platform for art films.

Running Oct. 21-28 in Valladolid, the capital city of Spanish region Castilla-Leon, the Seminci’s 68th edition marks the first under new director José Luis Cienfuegos, named last April.

With an illustrious near 30-year career as a festival director, at the helm of the Seville European Film Festival (2012-2023) and prior to that at the Gijon Intl. Film Festival (1995-2011), Cienfuegos has arrived to Valladolid at a time when a new generation of Spanish film auteurs, often women, is booming, making waves at the international festivals circuit.

“Valladolid is a city absolutely dedicated to the festival that demands and needs to open the doors to a new generation of filmmakers,...

Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax has nabbed international sales rights to Joaquín Mazón’s “The Night My Dad Saved Christmas,” starring Spain’s king of comedy Santiago Segura (”Father There Is Only One”) and Ernesto Sevilla (“I Can Quit Whenever I Want”).

A Spain-Mexico co-production, the film teams Spain’s tax incentive structure La Navidad en Sus Manos Aie with three of Spain’s most successful film production companies: Nadie Es Perfecto, Esto También Pasará Producciones and Bowfinger International Pictures.

The family comedy, scripted by Francisco Arnal and Daniel Monedero, is set in the days leading up to Christmas, when Santa – played by Segura – has an accident on his sleigh, right in the middle of Madrid, and ends up in hospital, where he will have to stay until after Christmas.

Fortunately, Salva, the guy he’s sharing a room with at the hospital, is willing to step in and take on his all important Christmas work.

Prolific Andalusian production company La Claqueta has tapped award-winning screenwriter-producer Alberto Marini to direct rural thriller “Últimos días de caza” (“Last Days of Hunting.”)

Penned by José Cabeza, co-scribe on 2016’s “7 Years,” Netflix first Spanish original movie, “Last Days of Hunting” has a completed screenplay and has initiated financing.

The aim is to close the financing phase during this year and begin shooting second quarter 2024, probably in northern Spain.

“Last Days of Hunting” leads a growth-period for Seville-based La Claqueta, which is raising the ante in terms of film production ambitions.

“This is a noir that revolves around torpid masculinity; it is the story of volcanoes that don’t know how to release lava when they should and that explode inwards,” said Marini, who debuted as a helmer with 2015 horror feature “Summer Camp.”

“The story takes place in a very localized universe and is grounded in the territory but...

The Miami Film Festival will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year. The festival, which runs from March 3 to March 12, includes 12 world premieres. The event will open with Ray Romano’s “Somewhere in Queens” and close with Stephen Frears’ “The Lost King.” The festival will screen a total of 140 films from more than 30 countries.

Director of programming Lauren Cohen said, “In our fourth decade of programming, we’re proud to continue bringing a diversity of top-quality films to increasingly sophisticated audiences.”

Four centerpiece presentations will take place during the festival, spotlighting key films with directors in attendance for post-screening Q&As. Included in that slate are Stephen Williams’ “Chevalier,” starring Kelvin Harrison, Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton and Minnie Driver; Benjamin Millepied’s “Carmen,” starring Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal and Rossy De Palma; Dani de la Orden and Àlex Murull’s “The Final Game (42 Segundo)”; and Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok’s “Judy Blume Forever.

A producer on one of the highest-grossing of Spanish films in the last decade, Alex de la Iglesia’s “Perfect Strangers,” Madrid-based Nadie es Perfecto is ramping up production as it rebrands and, following the hire of ex-Netflix exec Juan Mayne, focuses on broadening its bridges with Mexico and Latin America.

In one move, Christopher Hool at Mexico’s Sdb Films has boarded two upcoming Nep titles, “La Navidad está en sus manos,” from Joaquín Mazón, and Kike Maillo’s”Locomía.”

Nep also adapted Mexican hit series “El Juego de la Llaves,” a property of Corazón Films, for Spain, producing with Warner Bros. and local broadcaster Atresmedia.

As a sign of its expanded ambitions, the company is now rebranding as Nadie es Perfecto+.

“We aim to make more films, be present in more series and open up to other formats, and we’re already advancing on a brace of titles,...

Spanish indie production shingle Nadie es Perfecto, producer of Alex de la Iglesia’s hit comedy “Perfectos Desconocidos,” has tapped former Netflix exec Juan Mayne to join the company as it revs up its slate with a slew of new projects.

These include two pics in pre-production: “La navidad en sus manos,” in co-production with Bowfinger and Esto También Pasará, directed by Joaquín Mazón, starring Ernesto Sevilla and with a special collaboration from actor-filmmaker Santiago Segura, who has worked with de la Iglesia and Guillermo del Toro; and “Locomía,” directed by Kike Maillo, starring Jaime Lorente and Alberto Ammann.

Mayne’s 20 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry includes stints at Warner Bros. and Disney before heading the film division of Netflix in Spain. Said Mayne: “I am tremendously excited to begin this new role as an independent producer in a company that has spent two decades telling the best stories,...